Monday, September 14, 2009

Not In My Happy Place

I am having to revisit our little budget.

I was not necessarily expecting a certain large expense (*cough* Doctoral tuition *Cough*) since I was assured that it would only be undertaken if arrangements were made to have it paid by someone else.

And of course I got the bill. Surprise!

I suppose Hubby has a different definition of “someone else”

And I do want to be supportive of him, but I can’t help but wonder how much this is going to benefit us as a family.

Or about my request that I be able to go get my MBA first since, you know, that would be fairly quick (I already have several credits towards it), cheap (I could get about 80% reimbursed), and far more likely to pay for itself and then some.

Yes, I crunch numbers on the payoff for education and I’m not seeing any payoff.

It’s hard to be happy about this. I’m really trying. Hopefully I’ll find some reason to soon.
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On the subject of surprise bills, the Hound is going to have to go in for surgery soon. For once, Kerrygirl is totally fine. The Hound has a mast cell growth on her hip that’s going to have to go. We can work with the surgeon a little on price and we have good insurance on her, so it’ll come out to something fairly inexpensive, but still. Yikes.
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Work is iffy. Rumors are flying and I’m hoping that next month I have a job. Meanwhile, we have no savings because of someones surprise tuition.

1 comment:

caramama said...

Yikes! That's a tough place to be. I hope the Hound is okay, and that your job is secure. :-)